Water back up again, 2ft 10ins on Tony’s gauge and once again the blazing sun shone from a cloudless sky!!!! Even more frustrating was that I lost a fish in the meetings on for a minute of so. I did point out that had Tony not chosen a fly he had tied, for me it […]
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Murthly on Tay 9th April 2015
Unbelievable. Unbroken sunshine all day and fishing in shirtsleeves. Its the beginning of April for heavens sake! Water level stubbornly refuses to drop, no doubt due to snow melt from the highlands. We did see a small run of fish go through at about 2.30pm but they weren’t stopping for us. Frustrating or what?
Murthly on Tay 8th April
Water holding rather frustratingly at just around the 2ft mark and another day of blazing sunshine not helping our cause. Notwithstanding, Dennis P promptly added a second fish to his tally taken from Tonys boat at the meetings on Stenton, a sea-liced 12 pounder. We didn’t see a fish on the upper beat all day […]
Murthly on Tay 7th April 2015
River has dropped a little to about 2ft on the gauge which just brings the lower water into a fishable height. Better day too with high cloud to break up the brightest sun. As a consequence we got off the mark with a sea liced 8lb fish for Dennis P fishing a cascade from the […]
Murthly on Tay 6th April 2015
I should be reporting bitterly cold conditions and fresh fish creeping through on cold high water… Err no, try 21 degrees, blazing sunshine, shirtsleeves and a very awkward water height. The height at which fish just motor through and stop for nothing. We saw a couple of fish on the Upper Water but not even […]
Tay before we go
Just had a chat with Donald… Water is still 4ft on the old gauge (just under 3ft on the Caputh gauge) and at that awkward height for Murthly, but they lost two yesterday and have seen fish running through. Tony Black on Stenton has had 2 this week so far. Numbers for the system seem […]
Latest Salmon fishing & Spey Casting courses availability 2015
I have finally managed the usual shuffling of rods taking up their rights of first refusal for next season, with the one or two places now available on my spring salmon courses and fishing at Murthly on Tay and a very rare two places still available on my East Ranga, Iceland trip in July. Please […]
Tay Report Summary May 2014
Well I guess some years you get it just right and others not. After last years record catches in all three of my weeks expectations were high. But constant rain in the west possibly combined with rumours about some gate that wouldn’t close on the Dam at Pitlochry and the water was up and down […]
Tay report 14th May 2014
I hate to say I told you so…. But water down for the first time to a sensible height and a spanking 12 lb sea liced first fish from tail of spruces on a wagtail fly for Andrew h. And several other fish seen holding. If it stays at 1’6″ and below the rest of […]
Tay report 13th May 2014
This is becoming ridiculous, water down to 1’8″ yesterday afternoon and back up to over 2′ again today. They had 3 on the upper water yesterday and 4 off newtyle. We saw fresh fish hammering through and never got a pull!
